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Frozen Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate

Trips to New York City have become scarce over the years. Maybe non-existent is a better description.

I don’t have family, friends or business in New York. All past trips have been purely hedonistic, with food always at the top of my list.

I visit all the tourist traps. I can’t help it. I am a tourist when I’m there, a downtown poser in every sense of the word. Every trip has consisted of visits to the Empire State Building, Tavern on the Green, a carriage ride through Central Park and Serendipity 3.

Serendipity 3 reminds of a place you would celebrate your sweet sixteen. A glorified malt shop with faux Tiffany lamps, long lines, marginal service and so-so food. However, they won’t let you make a reservation for just dessert…you have to eat a meal. So we would eat….just to get dessert.

There is only one reason I patronized Serendipity 3…for the Frozen Hot Chocolate. It’s out of this world.

Served in a very large bowl-dish-mug thingy with a straw or two…it’s over the top delicious. Thoughts of this amazing dessert-drink have crossed my mind over the years so imagine my excitement when I came across Serendipity 3’s recipe for Frozen Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate.

I saw this on Oprah (shhh yes I watch Oprah) and I haven’t been able to remember the name of the place.We go to NY about once a year.I think I know where I taking my husband for dessert on our next trip.I am saving this recipe too!Yum.

I am up for work in a bit. If I were awake enough I could make this, but I would probably forget the lid to the blender or sugar or something. Zzzzzzz. I am so glad you are posting this recipe, there is a bakery here who makes a version, but something is lacking even though I have never been to Serendipity. Now that I read your ingredients it looks like a few things are lacking.

You said that “purely hedonistic” statement like it was a bad thing. I’m right there with you. LOL Planning a trip to NYC in November and I’ll be doing all the same things you do and loving every moment of it. Tourism supports the city, you know? 🙂

I remember seeing the frozen hot chocolate on Oprah, too. I wanted it then, but didn’t get to try it. I like the idea of this peanut butter version. Oh my. Serendipity … indeed.

Oh, you are wonderful. I was ecstatic a few years back when I found a Frozen Hot Chocolate mix from Serendipity, but it sucked!! This on the other hand, looks wrthy of the name. Can’t wait to try it!!!

yum! i was in the city yesterday…i took my 17-year-old cousin to peanut butter & co, a restaurant in the village that serves up ONLY peanut butter sandwiches (and variations thereof). i had the ‘lunchbox classic’ and she had pb & chocolate chips with reeses pieces.

then we walked up to ‘abracadabra’, a magic and costume shop because my cousin is an aspiring magician. she spent 2 happy hours getting tips from the pros and i bought her a bunch of tricks for her birthday. 🙂

seriously, though…for a foodie like you, you should break out of the ‘tavern on the green’ box. there are so many restaurants better than that. 🙂

My husband saw me checking out your blog and asked if I was checking out a little food porn before church on Sunday morning. LOL. It made me laugh so I thought you might get a kick out of it too. Honestly, the fact that he thought anything with whipped cream on it would qualify as food porn is a testament to how yummy that looks. 🙂

I was in NYC for the first time ever two times last year and didn’t make it to Serendipity. What was I thinking?!! I knew about the frozen hot chocolate. My mind was on getting to all the chocolate chip cookie places, which I did. I’m SO glad to have this recipe, because like you, I don’t know when I’ll ever got to get to NYC again! Awesome!

Eldest daughter will be home soon for spring break (yayyyyy she decided to NOT go to FL!)and we are going to make this together. I don’t care for peanut butter at all, but peanut butter and chocolate are her two favourite things and I know she’ll love this! Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

This really looks great – Hubby and I went to NY and the wait to get in to the restaurant was a couple hours so we decided to go someplace else – i am so glad that you recreated this so now I can make this at home!!

Ever since I heard about the rodent infestation at Serendipity, I decided not to ever go to that place. I still remained curious about the frozen hot chocolate. I’m so glad you posted this recipe. Now I don’t ever have to go! YUM!

I don’t blame you for doing the touristy stuff in NY. It’s there to be seen. It’s like when I made my first trip to London a few years ago on business where I spent all of my free time browsing the major sites and museums. I came back and a far-more well-traveled friend heard about it she said, “Why didn’t you tell me you were going? I would have told you all kinds of cool places where the tourists never go.” I said, “But I wanted to go where the toursts go. They go there for a reason!”

I haven’t had a frozen hot chocolate since high school. It was the night of my senior prom actually where we went to Serendipity for a post-prom snack. You have me missing them now. Maybe I need to make another late night/early morning trip. If I really have a craving, there is a chocolate store down the street from me that does a reasonably good facsimilie.

This looks great. I’ve always wanted to try Serendipity 3, but I tried to go last year and they were shut down by the health department for some pretty serious violations. Haven’t attempted to go again since they’ve reopened.

are you kidding me? this is completely enticing and would probably make me weak in the knees. amazing. i only ever heard about this place after watching the movie of the same name–loved the movie, love your recipe. 🙂

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